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RSS word in newsWindows 7, Snow Leopard, open source and glory for Steve Jobs
News In a word: cost. October's highlights on silicon.com were all about software - from fresh rumblings in the perennial Mac vs PC debate, to question marks over open source cost-cutting and the countdown to the launch of... [09 Nov 2009]
Why CIOs are saying yes to open source software
News Hachette Filipacchi's Bellenberg said while there is no reason why Open Office couldn't be used for "lower-impact" word processing or spreadsheets, there's still a way to go to obtain wide acceptance of such applications. [28 Oct 2009]
How Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News Staff will get access to Google Mail within the next four months and in future Vincent is.interested in rolling out further apps within the Google Apps suite, such as the word-processing software Google Docs and possibly... [26 Oct 2009]
Microsoft: Starter edition coming with Office 2010
News The free edition will only be available on new PCs and will include Excel and Word only. Microsoft has announced an ad-supported 'Starter' edition of Office to replace the Microsoft Works suite currently offered. [09 Oct 2009]
Microsoft wins U-turn in $388m lawsuit
News The victory in the Uniloc case comes as Microsoft is awaiting the result of an appeal in another patent case in which the custom XML feature in recent versions of Word was found to infringe on patents held by Canada's i4i. [30 Sep 2009]
Are dinosaur managers and poor teaching holding back Digital Britain?
News If you talk to 12-year-olds they'll say I don't want to work in an office because what they're taught at 12 is [Microsoft] Word and Excel," Clarke added. A panel assembled by the British Computer Society (BCS) were asked... [23 Sep 2009]
Microsoft's web-based Office: First taster goes live
News The limited test of the so-called Office Web Apps includes versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint but not the OneNote note-taking application. And while Excel and PowerPoint offer the ability to edit and create... [18 Sep 2009]
Google grabs ReCaptcha for security and book-scanning
News ReCaptcha offers two words, one of which is a captcha it already knows, and one of which is a word it doesn't know. The thinking is that if you get the first word right, you're likely to be a human and... [17 Sep 2009]
Microsoft accused of 'scare tactics' as judge grants a stay in Word case
News Microsoft has been granted a stay of a landmark injunction in a patent infringement case that would have required the software giant to stop selling its popular Word in its current form by next month. [04 Sep 2009]
eBay sells most of Skype in $2bn deal
News Word of Tuesday's impending sale to the private investor group was first reported late Monday in The New York Times. Ecommerce giant eBay announced on Tuesday that it's selling its Skype unit to an investor group that... [01 Sep 2009]
Sony Vaio laptops to come with Google Chrome attached
News Currently, however, the Chrome-browser Vaios are only available in the US and there's no word on whether they'll be hitting the UK any time soon. Consumers snapping up a new Vaio will get a choice of browsers with their... [01 Sep 2009]
Snow Leopard, Windows 7, Microsoft Word ban and BT broadband
News But not everything was going Microsoft's way in August, after a US judge ruled that the company had to stop selling Word in its current form due to patent infringement. While August may traditionally be something of a... [01 Sep 2009]
iPhone, Google battle - another element in the struggle for web power
News It's working to disrupt every industry from books and news to word processing and telecommunications by rebuilding them on top of the internet. But in the bigger picture, it's a fight that was destined to happen as the... [27 Aug 2009]
'You can't sell Word' ruling: Microsoft files formal appeal
News Microsoft filed its formal appeal late on Tuesday of a patent infringement ruling that threatens to halt sales of Word in its current form. Earlier this month, a federal judge increased that monetary award and also... [27 Aug 2009]
Microsoft looks to reverse 'you can't sell Word' ruling
News A federal appeals court has scheduled a hearing next month to decide whether to uphold a ruling that would force Microsoft to stop selling Word in its current form. A district court judge last week issued an injunction... [24 Aug 2009]
